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Had a chilled out day at this show today, here's a couple of photo's including a Ferrari Tractor with the biggest wheels and tyres ive seen

Saturday is the quiet day, though plenty to see. So here's a few photo's. That's yer lot for today.

That's to give the lawn a polished finish !!

Here's some more photos...

I am working on a Archaeological dig site not far from my house, the artifacts we are recovering are 11,000 years of age. I found many arrow heads and tons of deer bone. This was a hunting camp several days trek from the village, The indigenous population from around 11,000 years ago used this rock shelter to hunt large game from then butcher it and drag it home after processing. One of the arrow heads I found was broken and was probably lodged in an animal that was cooked at the site from the heat marks on it. What is amazing is that arrow head was smaller than a dime. We process an area 50cm x 50cm and 5cm deep at a time recording measurements from a set point. Then we wash and separate the dirt and rock from the artifacts, chip stone, shell, and bone and bag it and catalog it. As you can see the water for washing must be pumped from a creek, it then goes 10 meters up a hill to a tank then we gravity feed it down a hose to a sprayer. The creek rarely has water so next week unless we can get someone to bring water to us we will be shut down. Sorry about some of the poor pictures I'm just getting used to this camera/phone/computer/mixer/can opener

I have a thread on this over at the GTT forums as well. So far we are pretty sure that it is: COME TO COMPLETE STOP BEFORE SHIFTING. VOR DEM SCHALTEN ZUM VÖLLIGEN STILLSTAND KOMMEN. ARRETEZ COMPLETEMENT AVANT DE CHANGER DE VITESSE. STANNA HELT FÖRE VÄXLING.

This morning I attended the rally as a visitor to have a good mosey around. There were very few garden tractors on show except for a Simplicity and a Jacobsen. The rally was a very relaxed affair and had a good selection of vintage tractors, bikes, vehicles and oif course stationary engines. Spoke to a chap who created a replica Field Marshall tractor to scale. There was even a working steam fired thrashing engine working. A very enjoyable event and worth making the effort to attend. Here are some photos.

You know the comedians union is going to be after you for telling jokes online without a union card

Alain, a fascinating post and a very interesting dig I would have thought.

Great photos, thanks for sharing them

The Lifeboat tractor is based on a County tractor fitted with a fully submersible casing about 1/4" thick capable of submerging to the top of the windows. It is based at Silloth and used for recovering the Solway Estuary Lifeboat. The tide goes out very fast leaving miles of mud flats .

What a great use of spare time.. Hat's off to you Alain

Decals from Titch already, top man !!

I found this photo courtesy of pmackellow of one of his Multigardeners and even though nothing in common about the deck the height adjuster is the same.

For those of you that have not met Stormin, I ran in to him today at Silloth. He looked well after horseing around at Newby hall.

After we wet screen and wash each of the 20cm x 20cm x 5cm sections we pick out all the bone, tools, artifacts, chip stone, shell, etc, like I said, then these things are put into small baggies and labeled with the block and lot number as well as directional quadrant and level indicators that are mapped on the grid. I am in Lot 16 grid 15 and cleaned sections 55 through 61 today, that encompassed levels 105 and 106 in the NE, SE, SW, and NW quadrants of Lot 16. Each lot gets its own big bag the little bags go into. Then each bag is taken back to lab where it is rewashed and each separate material (bone, tool, chip stone, shell, artifact, etc.) is counted, weighed and measured, all this is listed into a log book and the numbers of how many tool, chip stone, bone, shell, and artifacts that are found in each section are then fed into a computer where it determines how much of the material was from the original layer and how much may have been transferred through natural or man ( or animal) made disturbances. The burnt bone is able to be dated so when we find younger bone mixed in with older bone and artifacts we know there was a transference of material between layers. The hope is that the computer can adjust for the anomalies of transference and give us data on when different civilizations used the site and for how long. I found another Arrow head today, everyone finds one everyday, but I also found lots of bone including the jaw bone of a rabbit with the teeth, Sorry to say I did not find the ears or tail.

Got a call late last night to say my decals are ready.

alain ,i would get to impatiant doing that, i would have to get the back -hoe out